HYDERABAD: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has been re-elected as the president of the ruling TRS for the eighth time, unopposed. This time, he will be in the top post for a four-year term.
During the party plenary held here on Friday, Home Minister and TRS veteran Nayani Narasimha Reddy, who had acted as the returning officer for the election held for the TRS president post, announced that Rao had been elected to the top post.
“CM KCR has been unanimously elected as the president of the party for the eighth time in a row as nobody filed nominations for the post of the party president,” Reddy said. Soon after getting elected to the party president’s post, Rao said he was very thankful to all the party leaders and workers for electing him as the party president for eighth term.
“When TRS was floated, 16 years ago, all my detractors ridiculed me. They said the TRS will not survive as a party. But, we have proved all our critics wrong and achieved statehood to Telangana. Now, the party has 75 lakh active members, which is a record in the country,” Rao said.
Later, the TRS plenary passed a resolution amending the party constitution making certain changes to the organisational structure. As per the newly made changes, party president will serve a four-year tenure instead of a two-year tenure. Similarly, the district committees have been disbanded and only Assembly constituency-wise committees will be operational, for a tenure of four years. There won’t be district wings for the party.
TRS defers KTR elevation?
Though the ruling TRS had earlier dropped hints that it would elevate the IT minister KT Rama Rao within the party to make him step into his father KCR’s shoes in the coming days, the party leadership on Friday refrained from taking the step.
According to sources, as Congress Party is already trying to cash in on alleged differences between KTR and irrigation minister T Harish Rao with open remarks, the TRS leadership has dropped its proposal to promote KTR for now. Harish on the other hand, tried to maintain a low-profile.
“KTR has already established himself as the successor of his father not only in the government but also in the TRS. His latest efforts to address public meetings across the State to publicise government welfare schemes and development programmes is a clear example for this. Keeping all responsibilities of the party on KTR’s shoulders is just a matter of time,” a TRS leader said.